Posted
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Zonk
on Tuesday April 11, 2006 @08:49AM
from the little-pictures-big-prize dept.

Dekortage writes "The New York Times discusses the new Emmy category 'for outstanding original programming for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices, including the video iPod.' The nominees include 24: Conspiracy, Sophie Chase, and It's JerryTime!." From the article: "... lesser-known video creators are getting recognition as well. These include 'Sophie Chase,' an online series based on an attractive detective; 'Stranger Adventures,' a weekly interactive game where participants get e-mail messages and watch live-action video to help solve a puzzle; and 'It's JerryTime!,' created by two brothers from Massachusetts, Orrin and Jerry Zucker."

Apparently she's Angelina Jolie's body double. And for the "OMTWTFG THEIR ARE OTHER MEDIA PLAYERS BESIDES TEH IPOD!!!!" crowd, her website refers to the award as the "New Media Emmy Award". And who are you to doubt Angelina Jolie's body double?

If this is the level, maybe I should be producing something - and nobody wants to see that.

On the contrary, I'm actually looking forward to, "Slashdot: Escaping the Basement." It's a fictional drama about a slashdotter who finally leaves his parent's basement only to find that the world is run by good looking stupid people, that "logic" is a mythical word only spoken in dark circles, and that he's constantly being reminded that he smells "a bit ripe".

But those are among the nominees for the first Emmy award to be given by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for outstanding original programming for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices, including the video iPod.

I hope that really isn't the title of the award. A) It's a mouthful and B) I think it's safe to say Apple doesn't need to get billing while other don't. Of course this is more a technical award, so you're not going to get to see it during the main Emmy telecast -- th

"NOMINEES FOR THE FIRST EMMY AWARD FOR INTERNET, CELLPHONES AND IPODS ANNOUNCED"

It's refered to as several other things such as "the new Emmy" in their Press Release, which makes me think they are still settling on the name. Short video programs for your cell phone may be a short lived fad, so perhaps they don't want to commit? Does the Academy have a category for

Rooster Teeth Productions has already made a huge splash in the independent film scene and has a lot of people taking machinima seriously because of the success of RvB. It's funny, is loaded with satire and tongue-in-cheek social commentary, and very, very original. Not to mention they sustain a volume of production that makes it more than just a short film.

Or, say, Purepwnage. More funny video game related nonsense. Of course, neither would be considered because of how generally stuffy and out of touch these award shows like to be. I wonder if Battlestar Galactica will even be (or has been?) considered.

'for outstanding original programming for computers, cellphones and other hand-held devices, including the video iPod.'

This can be video, flash, games, presentations, quizes...and that's just on the pc! This is just insane...Oblivion should have won the emmy for computer game, had this catagory existed. But now I fear teh catagory is so overly broad that it will become a bought-and-paid-for advertising emmy.

'Oh, we want to hype and PR this [insert product]...let's buy it the 'whatever as long as it's digital' emmy'.

Uh, right. Every single company hoping to promote something is going to run out and buy themselves an Emmy.

Even accepting your basic premise that the award is for sale (which I don't), they still only give out one in each category every year. You'd think a massive bidding war to buy an award that no one's really going to care about would attract attention and be a big waste of time and money. Insightful indeed.

These are essentially 24 one-minute mobi-episodes that have appeared on cell phones as a promotional tool for season four. [...] This is a 24 mobi- epiisode show on cell phone, so I hope this doesn't come back for a second mobiseason.

Can we just declare war on this particular mobi-prefix now, before it gets out of hand?

This award is just a Daytime Emmy. More specifically, it will be given out at the "Creative Arts" Daytime Emmy awards ceremony. This is like getting an Oscar nomination... in the Scientific and Technical awards. Which no one watches. And no one outside of the Scientific and Technical award nominee community pays much attention to.

Oh, and for the record, the award is officially "for Outstanding Original Programming
Created for Non-Traditional Delivery Platforms."

...'The-most-senior-media-executive-to-realise-tha t-watching-movies-on-a-2"-screen is-stupid-stupid-stupid' (the 'wake up and smell the coffee') award is held over until next year as no nominees have been put forward.

Nominate me - it's stupid
Not cost-effective
And yet costless
A lie
And a sham.
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Coevalic idiosyncracies
With sponser-based covalic bondage breaking
Cheesy grins melting
You found us out.
I can stop
now
Because
Kurt ain't dead yet.